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Reproductive Success for Working Scientists
- "Long ago, I found myself pregnant while working as a postdoc at a federal institute. I was blessed with what seemed like the ideal situation for a mammal who wanted to increase her Darwinian fitness while enhancing her chances for tenure. I would be able to give birth and raise the baby past that difficult first year before I had to throw myself into the academic job market in search of a faculty position. Perfect, I thought."
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Women in Math Project
- This web site is host to numerous links to information about publications, people, associations, opportunities, activities, and statistics relating to women in mathematics.
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Women in Biology Internet Launch Page
- Links to topics around the web relevant to women in biology at all stages, but especially focused on graduate, postdoctoral, and levels beyond. Includes history, organizations, career issues, and aspects of the chilly climate.
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Academic Careers & Babies
- Personal accounts of UC Davis women faculty.
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Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
- The AWM is a nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging and promoting women and girls in the mathematical sciences including pure mathematics, statistics, and applied math. The AWM site has career information, articles about women in mathematics, brochures profiling women in math, and more!
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How Women Make Science Work
- by Kristen Philipkoski , Wired News , December 27, 2000. " In the world of science and engineering, the small percentage of female scientists reflects the hurdles woman encounter in those fields. Carol Kovac is a study in breaking through the stereotypes. "
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Biographies & Pictures of Some Famous Women Mathematicians.
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in HistoryThis site is an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in which students create on-line biographies of various women mathematicians, past and present.
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The Laws of Physics
- The Chronicle, 11/11/2005. "As a postdoctoral researcher, Sherry M.J. Towers thought she had all the rights of a university employee. After a careful reading of her university's handbook, she calculated that she could take three months off after the birth of her second child, in 2003. But before her daughter was three weeks old, Ms. Towers was back in her research office making presentations at meetings, consulting with a graduate student she supervised, and finishing a paper. Her infant daughter, still too young for a day-care center, sat stashed in a car seat under Ms. Towers's desk."
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CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computer Science and Engineering
- Lots of links relevant to women in computer science and computer engineering. CRA also runs several programs of its own.
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Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
- AWIS is a non-profit organization established in 1971, dedicated to achieving equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. AWIS has over 5,000 members in fields spanning the life and physical sciences, mathematics, social science, and engineering.
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US Equal Employment Laws and Regulations
- This page contains pointers to information about US federal equal employment laws and regulations which may be relevant to academics and researchers in computer science (or similar fields).
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Women in Math (WIM)
- Women in Math (WIM) is an organization at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP). WIM is dedicated to serving the needs of women mathematicians at UMCP. In order to fulfill that purpose, WIM members have organized a number of events. Two ongoing activities are monthly lunch get-togethers and biweekly graduate women talks. We also have an electronic newsletter for our members. The web page features links to numerous sites related to women and the sciences.
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Stanford promises graduate student moms 12 weeks of paid maternity leave
- "Stanford University on Thursday promised its women graduate students 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, a bold step aimed at attracting and retaining female intellectual talent. The policy -- believed to be the second of its kind among major U.S. universities -- also guarantees that new mothers can maintain full-time student status and eases their return to classwork, research, and teaching."
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Graduate Women in Science
- Graduate Women in Science is an interdisciplinary society of scientists who encourage and support women to enter and achieve success in science through full participation in their scientific research and its applications; in the development and advancement of women; in the integration of their careers, personal goals, and society's needs; and by professional networking and mutual inspiration.
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The Noetherian Ring at UC Berkeley
- The Noetherian Ring is a group of women in mathematics at U.C. Berkeley. They meet once a week during the academic year. Meetings begin with a half hour of refreshments and discussion. There is also a half-hour math talk, usually given by one of the members.
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Barriers to Women in Academic Science and Engineering
- In Willie Pearson Jr. and Irwin Fechter eds. Who Will Do Science? Educating the Next Generation, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
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Accomplished Women
- HHMI Bulletin, June 2002. " The climb to the top is not easy, but a new group of women is moving into the upper ranks of science. They urge young faculty to aim high--just brace for the inevitable obstacles. "
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Women in Mathematics
- These pages contain information and links of interest to women in mathematics and to women contemplating careers in mathematics.
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The Reluctant Feminist
- New York Times , April 8, 2001. " Two years ago, Dr. Hopkins led a knot of women professors who documented pervasive bias at M.I.T., prompting the university to admit it had unintentionally discriminated against female faculty members. The admission from such a prominent institution and its moves to correct inequities have resonated widely. There had been other reports at other universities, but this one looked beyond the numbers, to how women were treated. "
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Achieving Gender Equity in Science Classrooms: A Guide for Faculty
- A handbook " compiled by women science students and science faculty and staff at NECUSE Colleges and based upon initial work by students at Brown University. "
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Does Science Promote Women?
- Ginther and Kahn use data from the NSF's Survey of Doctorate Recipients (the SDR) to estimate the chances of obtaining a tenure track position and of subsequent promotions as a function of sex and other explanatory variables. Their findings, in a nutshell: 1) Overall, women are less likely to obtain tenure track positions in the sciences, 2) However, the gap is entirely explained (in a statistical sense) by marriage and children, 3) Furthermore, there is little sex-related difference in the likelihood promotion to tenure or full professor.
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Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
- SWE's Mission: " stimulates women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expands the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrates the value of diversity "
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4000 Years of Women in Science
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in History" Women are, and always have been, scientists. This site lists over 125 names from our scientific and technical past. They are all women! This site grew out of the public talks given by Dr. Sethanne Howard, currently with NASA. "
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Women in Science
- "This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs."
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Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering
- Many interesting links can be found at this site.
